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==Gallery== <gallery> File:Disconformity Horni Pocernice.jpg|''Disconformity'' at [[Horni Pocernice]], Czech Republic File:Borden-Sharon unconformity.jpg|''Disconformity'' (at the hammer) between underlying [[Mississippian (geology)|Mississippian]] [[Borden Formation]] and overlying Pennsylvanian Sharon Conglomerate, near [[Jackson, Ohio]] File:Taum Sauk precambrian-cambrian unconformity.jpg|There is a billion-year gap in the geologic record where this 500-million-year-old [[dolomite (rock)|dolomite]] ''nonconformably'' overlies 1.5-billion-year-old [[rhyolite]], near [[Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station]], Missouri. File:Ratssteinbruch Dresden-Doelzschen.jpg|''Nonconformity'' at Ratssteinbruch near [[Dresden]], Germany File:Siccar Point red capstone closeup.jpg|Hutton's ''angular unconformity'' at [[Siccar Point]] where [[Famennian]] age (371β359 Ma) Devonian [[Old Red Sandstone]] overlies [[Llandovery Epoch|Llandovery]] age (444β433 Ma) Silurian [[greywacke]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Redheugh Sandstone Formation |url=https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=REMU |website=BGS Lexicon of Names Rock Units |publisher=British Geological Survey |access-date=5 February 2023}}</ref> File:Angular Unconformity at Praia do Telheiro in Algarve in Portugal.png|''Angular unconformity'' of [[Triassic]] rocks overlying steeply-tilted [[Carboniferous]] rocks at [[Vila do Bispo|Praia do Telheiro]], Portugal File:Steamboat Butte New Mexico.jpg|''Angular unconformity'' between the underlying [[Dockum Group]] and the overlying [[Exeter Sandstone]] at Steamboat Butte in the valley of the Dry Cimmarron, New Mexico File:Winkeldiskordanz.JPG|Angular unconformity in [[Jingtai County]], China File:Tephra Layers at Chimborazo Volcano in Ecuador.jpg|Angular unconformity in [[pyroclastic rock]] layers erupted by [[Chimborazo]] volcano, Ecuador Image:GP_0147_%282%29.JPG|Geological unconformity, Camelback mountain, Arizona, showing deposition of Chattian sandstone (right) on Precambrian granite (left). </gallery>
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